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Honored by the & governments, was attracted by the aggressiveness of Amazon like thorny & sometimes home to scorpions.


📷: "#Bromelia anticantha Bertol." In our

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2019-03-22

I've heard the phrase 'the hills have eyes', but I've never heard 'the ground has teeth' before 🤔

Edward Lear kangaroo from 'Transactions of the Zoological Society of London', v.1 (1835)

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2019-03-19

Calling undergrads & alumni curious about & more! Kick off your by applying to our Postgraduate in Apply by April 1: https://t.co/KymCtatki3.

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2019-03-18

"Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy..."

How come this Loris looks like it's doing Shakespeare in the park?!

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2019-03-13

This July...

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2019-03-10

Interested in recovering the have in shaping Apply now to our funded summer program w/ & : https://t.co/LXF1LpRdhZ

📷: 19th century drawing of the of a in our collection

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2019-03-07

For some in the animal kingdom, every day is Fat Tuesday

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2019-03-05

The snozberries taste like snozberries...

from 'Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur' by Schreber

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2019-03-04

in 1971, the Leadbeater's Possum became Victoria's faunal emblem

John Leadbeater was ’s first taxidermist. Professor McCoy had previously attempted to name a bird for him but was beaten to naming rights by John Gould!

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2019-03-02

𝙕𝙤𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙉𝙚𝙬 𝙃𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙙 ([1793]-1794) describes & illustrates animals from Australia with text by George Shaw & hand-colored engravings prepared by James Sowerby. Explore this in via ➡️ https://t.co/f2er8SDhpn

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2019-02-20

Here's a fun hump day game:

Anyone wanna take a guess at what this is??

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2019-02-13

Following the lunar calendar, falls today, signalling the start of the Year of the 🐷

These domestic are from 'Thick-skinned quadrupeds' by Sir William Jardine (1856)

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2019-02-05

TFW you wake up super dehydrated...

from Schreber's 'Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur' (1774-1855)

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2019-01-30

Ice shoves, snow clearing, horses! L'hiver au Canada in the early 1900s. Topographical Postcard Collection https://t.co/6VV8WO7inl

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2019-01-20

Our next eCatalogue will be devoted to and this wide-eyed spectral tarsier will be in it, unless someone orders this interesting book today:

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2019-01-17

Woohoo it's !

Here I am slothing around outside the Forest Gallery at emulating this from 'Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur' by Schreber

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2019-01-16